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===Overall, anti-Semitic incidents are at the lowest point in 15 years.

===So what is to be done? Kenneth L. Marcus, who runs the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law, wrote in an introduction to the Trinity survey that these “eye-opening findings should awaken authorities to the need to address campus anti-Semitism much more aggressively, comprehensively, and effectively than they are now doing.”

===We’d amend that statement. These findings need further research to be consequential. While appropriately muscular responses from campus authorities are welcome, our hunch is that much of this perceived anti-Semitism fits into a broader pattern of incivility with regards to race, gender and ethnicity, and should be addressed in that context.

In the Winter 2015 issue of Tikkun Magazine the article "Silencing Dissent: How Biased Civil Rights Policies Stifle Dialogue on Israel" by Chip Berlet and Maria Planansky contained two errors. Abigail Thernstrom’s term on the US Civil Rights Commission ended in December 2013, and she was never on the board of the Cato Institute. The authors take full responsibility for the errors and offer their apologies to Ms. Thernstrom and the editors and readers of Tikkun Magazine.

Democracy is not a specific set of institutions but a process that requires dissent.
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Democracy is a process that assumes the majority of people,
over time, given enough accurate information,
the ability to participate in a free and open public debate,
and to vote without intimidation,
reach constructive decisions that benefit the whole of society, and
preserve liberty, protect our freedoms, extend equality,
and thus defend democracy itself.

Democracy is not a specific set of institutions but a process that requires dissent.
- - -
Democracy is a process that assumes the majority of people,
over time, given enough accurate information,
the ability to participate in a free and open public debate,
and to vote without intimidation,
reach constructive decisions that benefit the whole of society, and
preserve liberty, protect our freedoms, extend equality,
and thus defend democracy itself.